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Church Square

201 reports at 34 addresses in Addington, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 180 separate days somebody filed something about it.

201 reports34 addresses180 days reported on2 on the registerfrom the air, thenthe 342nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

14 Church Square, 48 reports29 Church Square, 17 reports30 Church Square, 16 reports19 Church Square, 13 reports6 Church Square, 11 reports11 Church Square, 11 reports16 Church Square, 10 reports35 Church Square, 9 reports7 Church Square, 7 reports5 Church Square, 5 reports30E Church Square, 5 reports21A Church Square, 5 reports44 Church Square, 4 reports27 Church Square, 4 reports25 Church Square, 4 reports6B Church Square, 3 reports24 Church Square, 3 reports10A Church Square, 3 reports10 Church Square, 3 reports6A Church Square, 2 reports33 Church Square, 2 reports31 Church Square, 2 reports21 Church Square, 2 reports20 Church Square, 2 reports8 Church Square, 1 report40 Church Square, 1 report4 Church Square, 1 report34 Church Square, 1 report32 Church Square, 1 report27-29 Church Square, 1 report23 Church Square, 1 report22 Church Square, 1 report21-25 Church Square, 1 report1/14 Church Square, 1 reportChurch Square and Setting: registerChurch of St Mary the Virgin and Setting: register

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Church Square, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Addington.

From the air, then

Church Square from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Church Square from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Church Square from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Church Square from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →

The addresses on it

What got reported

Year by year

On the register

On foot, Church, gaol and the workshops walks this street.

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Church Square in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

Its file in the papers

Papers Past records that surfaced when the archive searched for the street’s name, they answered the search; whether they are about this street is a reader’s call, at the link.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Church Square?

In Addington, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Church Square?

201 reports at 34 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (114), roads & footpaths (34), graffiti & vandalism (21).

When was Church Square first reported on?

2015, the record covers 180 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What heritage places are on Church Square?

Church Square and Setting, Church of St Mary the Virgin and Setting.

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